Big Pharma spent nearly $400 million lobbying to stop our Inflation Reduction Act and the ability to negotiate lower drug prices.
And when they failed, they sued us to maintain their exorbitant prices.
But the law is on our side. We fought too damn hard to yield now. pic.twitter.com/13vx4Ycddj
— President Biden (@POTUS) August 16, 2024
Day: August 15, 2024
Watch the film East/West apart idiots who went to the USSR in the 1930s!
This couple are committing a crime to their children, but that is unfortunately legal.
Thousands of idiots went to Stalin’s dictatorship in the 1930s. https://t.co/YBy0hgDJyC— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) August 16, 2024
The operational surprise that Iran is trying to build is meant to increase the likelihood that an Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel would inflict serious damage.
CTP-ISW continues to assess that the most likely course of action is that Iran and its Axis of Resistance… https://t.co/SdarIgsOS3 pic.twitter.com/6vVO49NKxG
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) August 16, 2024
Dimitri Simes, former head of the Center for the National Interest in Washington and former Russia adviser to President Nixon, lives in Moscow again & is a leading propagandist for Putin.
Why did many top republicans support him for years?
Are they dumb or treasonous? https://t.co/fY3PAEKJGd— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) August 16, 2024
It is extraordinary that the FBI does not focus on the main national security threat to the US, Donald Trump & his family. https://t.co/21YckNNw2w
— Anders Åslund (@anders_aslund) August 16, 2024
The Kremlin and the Russian military command are creating a complicated, overlapping, and so far, ineffective command and control (C2) structure for the Russian response to the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk Oblast. https://t.co/gROEW9da47 pic.twitter.com/Q8lE6C9f7F
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) August 16, 2024
🇷🇺 has begun moving certain elements from UKR to respond to the situation in Kursk, but the types of units that are redeploying, and where they are redeploying from, is a strong indicator that the Russian military command is still prioritizing ongoing offensive ops in eastern 🇺🇦. https://t.co/gROEW9dHTF pic.twitter.com/KKL3DUCBBO
— Institute for the Study of War (@TheStudyofWar) August 16, 2024
Tonight has been one of the Quietest Nights for Israel, Gaza, and Southern Lebanon in quite awhile, let’s see if it lasts.
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) August 16, 2024
I was reminded by a Katsap on TG that Viktor Tsoi died 34-years ago today in a car accident. He was a Soviet-era rock star and one of the few Russian musicians I ever liked. His band still does live concerts using voice tracks of Tsoi which are a much more modern take on his… pic.twitter.com/WpBm9zYBkS
— OSINT (Uri Kikaski) 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@UKikaski) August 16, 2024